Pea-vine or clover cutter.



No. 646,862. Patented Apr. 3; I900.

J. C. MOCOLLUM. PEA VIN E 0B CLOVER CUTTER.

(Ap lication filed Dec. 19, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH C. MOCOLLUM, OF BLOOMFIELD, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ERNEST M. VINE, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS.

PEA-VINE OR CLOVER CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 646,862, dated April 3, 1900.

Application filed December 1 9, 1898. Serial No.'699,735. (No model.) Y

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J osEPH O. MoCoLLUM,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomfield, in the county of Stoddard and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Pea-Vine or Glover Cutter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to harvesters and mowers, and particularly to an attachment for mowing-machines, whereby longmaterial, such as peavines and clover, may be cut vertically to divide the swaths made by the mower, and thus facilitate the harvesting thereof. r I

The particular object of my invention is to provide a simple and efficient construction and arrangement of parts whereby-a vertical knife may be reciprocated, the same receivingits motion from the usual knife or cutter bar ofa mowing-machine. v

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim. V

In the drawings, Figure 1 is perspective view of a cutterembodyingmy invention, the same being shown applied to the contiguous portions of amowing-machine. Fig. 2 is a detail view, partly in section, of the attachment to show the means for communicating motion from the main cutter-bar to the auxiliary or vertical cutter bar, themembers of said connection being shown in full lines in one position and in dotted lines at the opposite limit of the movement thereof.

Similar reference characters indicate cor-responding parts in both figures of the drawings.

The device embodying my invention is adapted for use in connection with the usual reciprocatory cutter-bar 1 and finger-bar 2 of an ordinary mowing-machine, said finger-bar terminating, as in the usual practice, in a shoe 3. Rising from the outer extremity of the main finger-bar or from the terminal shoe 3 is a guide-bar 4, arranged in an approximately-vertical position and provided with guard-fingers 5, which, with said guide, constitute anauxiliary finger-bar disposed approximately perpendicular to the main finends, as shown at 9, and a link 10, mounted at one end upon said pivot 9 and at the other end upon a bracket 11, preferably rising from and carried by ahorizontal shoe extension 3, said bracket having a suitable spindle 12,

which forms the fulcrum of said link 10. I Obviously the use of the link 10 insures the movement of the pivot 9 in a segmental-path I concentric with the fulcrum of said arm, and hence during the reciprocation of the main cutter-bar the motion communicated by the -link 7 to the extremity of thelink 10 is also imparted through the link 8 to the auxiliary cutter-bar. This connection enables me to obtain a longthrow of the cutter-bars without binding of the parts and reduces to the minimum the friction due to the operation of the parts, whereby the strain due to the use of the attachment is reduced to the minimum and the auxiliary cutter-bar may be operated with but slight increase in the resistance offered to the driving mechanism.

As above indicated, the attachment is designed especially for use in harvesting pea vines and clover, which are known to'constitute valuable feed for stock; but difiiculty has been experienced heretofore in harvest- 9o ing pea-vines by reason of the length thereof and the fact that in growth they become interlocked and interwoven, and hence are difficult to handle in loading upon vehicles. The use of an attachment such as that constituting the subject-matter of my invention pro vides for severing the pea-vines or other material which is being harvested in the VGI'lJl calplane of the outer end of the main fingerbar, whereby the swaths made by the mow- 10o ing-machine are separated, and in this way the loading of the material is facilitated.

In connection with the auxiliary finger-bar I also employ an upwardly and forwardly inclined guide or gathering arm 13 to catch and depress the vines into the field of operation of the auxiliary cutter-bar. In practice I prefer, as shown in the drawings, to arrange the connections between the main and auxiliary cutter-bars beyond or outside of the auxiliary cutter-bar to avoid interference thereof with the material cut by the main bar; but it Will be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with the main horizontal finger-bar, a vertical auxiliary fingerbar rising from one end of the main bar, and the rcciprocatory cutter bars associated therewith, of a pair of toggle-links 7 and 8 having a pivot connecting their contiguous ends, and pivoted at their ends respectively to the adjacent ends of the right-angularly-disposed cutter-bars, a stationary support arranged beyond one end of and carried by the main finger-bar, and a single swinging link 10 pivotally hung on said support at one end, and having its other end connected with the pivot of the two toggle-links, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH C. MCCOLLUM.

Witnesses:

J. W. FARRIS, LETTIE JONES. 

